no, the mess there is far greater than it could ever -- hopefully -- be here.
The Italian gov.t has been subsidizing AZ for the last... 60 years. Alitalia has had 1 profitable qtr. in the last 29 years, employees 1.8 more employees than a comparable sized EU airline, and its employees believe they're entitled to a high paying job regardless of the company's financial performance. Just to give you an example back in 1998 (?) the pilots had Rome's Fiumicino airport (the largest in the country) closed down by sitting on taxiways and runways in protest to mngt. That's right, on the runways.
The govt. on the other hand sees an airline who has never managed to win the support of the paying public -- let alone that of the taxpayers -- as a prised crown jewel. By continuing to stifle competition on AZ's only profitable route (Milan-Rome) countless administrations have only succeded in making Italy the only European country without any real competition in the skies with all the consequences one can immagine.
The best thing Italians and their government can do is to let Alitalia go under and let the new privately held airlines develop a network of some substance.